“New York's 1,200+ homeless veterans are ineligible for these $15,600 payments.”
What PolitiFact found
Cotton’s tweet refers to a budgetary provision in New York state that would provide aid to immigrants who are in the country illegally, but it leaves a misleading impression about its intent.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tom Cotton (U.S. Senator, R-Ark.) made this claim around 8 April 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 May 2021, 40 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Tom Cotton has 13 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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